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Here's why. The big tax-rule overhaul of 1997 let married homeowners filing jointly pocket up to $500,000 of their home-sale gains tax free, while single filers could keep $250,000. Until then, sellers could defer taxes only by plowing gains into a new house, then taking a once-in-a-lifetime exclusion of up to $125,000 at age 55 or older...
Newmark's personal touch is part of the appeal. A self-professed nerd who wore plastic pocket protectors and thick black glasses in high school, Newmark insists that he's not out to get rich but to create a place "where people can get everyday stuff done." He likes to play practical jokes, such as issuing a press release on April Fool's Day stating that there was, in fact, no Craig. And he's proudest of the "random acts of kindness" he often sees on the site, such as the woman who offered her vacuum cleaner to a public...
...minutes past happy hour in this smoky Guangdong snooker hall, and the lonely have congregated to shoot another night away. Every night at seven a downcast man claims a table for himself to rack and break and pocket balls in meditative solitude until closing time. Occasionally, he glances over at the yellow-haired man who nightly commands a table next to him. Tonight, the magical geometry of ball to pocket is off, so the Chinese man diverts himself by ambling toward the equally lonely-looking foreigner. "Hello," he says in his best English. "I am Mister Wang...
...asked the passenger to produce his ID. Although local officials believe the bomber's intended target may have been the nearby military headquarters, once accosted by the government soldiers he knew he would get no further. Opening the left rear door, he stepped out with one hand in his pocket, a finger poised on the trigger mechanism. TIME's correspondent witnessed the explosion from a ridge-top bunker a short distance away. A flash and thick curls of smoke engulfed the road before the crack of the explosion washed across farmers' fields. Moments later, a Kurdish government mortar battery retorted...
...right before I left for school,” Scott remembers with a laugh. With a crowd of 20 people watching him, Summers politely nibbled at the jerky. “Finally someone said something about him having to go to UHS and he just put it in his pocket and mumbled something and walked off.” Scott is still laughing...